15-letter words containing s, y, n, c
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
- inconsolability — not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate: She was inconsolable when her son died.
- inconspicuously — not conspicuous, noticeable, or prominent.
- indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
- indistinctively — without distinctive characteristics.
- inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
- insignificantly — Of such extremely small quantity or degree that it is not worth measuring.
- insurrectionary — of, relating to, or of the nature of insurrection.
- intramuscularly — In an intramuscular manner; within a muscle.
- intravascularly — Within a blood vessel.
- introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- introspectivity — The quality of being introspective.
- ionospherically — by the ionosphere
- isothiocyanates — Plural form of isothiocyanate.
- italian cypress — a tall Eurasian cypress, cupressus sempervirens, native to the eastern Mediterranean region
- janissary music — music characteristic of or imitative of that played by a Turkish military band, typically employing cymbals, triangles, bass drum, and Turkish crescents.
- john chrysostom — Saint John, a.d. 347?–407, ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople.
- justice in eyre — a circuit made by an itinerant judge (justice in eyre) in medieval England.
- kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
- keyes technique — a system of treating periodontal diseases by eliminating specific disease-related microorganisms, primarily through nonsurgical therapy that is regulated and adjusted in accordance with microscopic or cultural findings in subgingival plaque specimens.
- keying sequence — a sequence made up of letters or numbers that can encode or decode a polyalphabetic substitution cipher one letter at a time.
- keystone comedy — a short film of the silent era, often featuring the Keystone Kops.
- kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
- laundry service — clothes-washing business
- learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history.
- leyland cypress — a fast-growing cypress, Cupressocyparis leylandii, that is a hybrid produced by crossing the macrocarpa with the Nootka cypress (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis): widely grown for hedging
- library science — the study of the organization and administration of a library and of its technical, informational, and reference services.
- machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
- martensitically — in a martensitic manner
- masculine rhyme — a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
- master cylinder — the hydraulic pump of an automotive braking system that contains a cylinder and one or two pistons, is actuated by the brake pedal, and supplies hydraulic fluid under pressure to the brakes at each wheel.
- mechanistically — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
- mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.
- menstrual cycle — (in women of reproductive age) the cycle of physiological changes affecting the reproductive organs that takes place typically over a month and includes ovulation, thickening of the lining of the womb and menstruation if fertilization of the egg has not occurred
- minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
- miscellaneously — In a miscellaneous manner.
- miscue analysis — analysis of the errors a pupil makes while reading
- monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
- monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
- monospaced type — a typeface in which the width of all letters, including the space around them, is the same
- monospecificity — the condition of being specific for a sole antigen
- monosyllabicity — The state or characteristic of being monosyllabic.
- morphosyntactic — involving both morphology and syntax.
- nanocrystalline — Of, pertaining to, or composed of nanocrystals.
- necessary stool — close-stool.
- neuroplasticity — the capacity of the nervous system to develop new neuronal connections: research on neuroplasticity of the brain after injury.
- neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
- neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.
- new york school — a loosely associated group of American and European artists and sculptors, especially abstract expressionist painters, active in and near New York City chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s.